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@@scifri Awesome thanks! Would be nice if shorts always included links to original, though it seems youtube is intent on hiding them.

pretty sure yeah but more obviously there's also turtles

Wiser than them individually, and maybe even all of them combined 😅

… you’re joking right?

@@bradleyarcher9840 Its a good question. the climate has always changed. Some millennia were more hospitable to human life and some millennia were less. If you don't like thinking for yourself and let other people do it for you I am forced to think you only believe what you believe because your mind is susceptible to cult-like following of things the media puts on us

The climate is changing, we have higher temperatures across the globe, on average last year we was 1.5degrees higher on average, we have increased forest fires in Canada and Australia, we have the UK with temperature up to 40degrees, we have air pollution at an all time high. Please explain to me what’s better? I’m not a climate scientist so I don’t make bold statements, but I do listen to what they have to say and look at what’s going on around me. I suggest you not get on your high horse when someone challenges you as it makes you look petty and ignorant. I enjoy having warmer summers in the UK but I don’t like the bigger picture and the road we’re heading down.

@@bradleyarcher9840 Im not on a high horse. Science that cannot have questions asked about it is not science. I'm not even saying climate change going out of control isn't real, I'm questioning it which is what smart people do. You're on the proverbial high horse you speak of though because you think people are supposed to believe everything they are told automatically. Furthermore, you used some anecdotal evidence about you think there Australia was pretty hot and you think there are more fires. Well if we're going to use anecdotal evidence like you, the last 3 winters I experienced were really cold and the summers were much more mild recently than ones when I was younger. Lastly climate change AKA all the weather and geology in the entire world has so many variables involved that no accurate model can portray it accurately. For example you cannot guess how the ocean currents would affect the world weather if we assume warming changes the current. You just got told something by either a school teacher or by a news channel and you auto-assume the future of the earth. I actually do science, not climate science, but I completely understand scientific reasoning and QUESTIONING